Archive for the ‘Magictown’ Category

Eliza Mae Constant was a beautiful woman. She was a singer and a performer who used her magic to make light dance to her song. She was beloved by the people of Magictown, a bright ray of happiness through the dower cloud that hung perpetually over the city. But all that was gone now, David [...]

Back in the car, hurrying to the heart of the city, the trio of magics are surprised at the number of people they find packed into the town square. “Never seen so many people out here. ‘Specially not for something like this.” Turning onto the street that borders the southern side of the town square, [...]

On the drive to the city square, each of them goes through their own mental rituals. Prepare themselves for what’s coming. David monopolizes the rear view mirror, preening himself and checking to see if any part of his breakfast had lodged itself unattractively in his front teeth. In the back of the car, Mary silently [...]

Inside the converted garage, David finds Maggie still fussing over her fugitive daughter, Sally. Ignoring the commotion between her mother and sister, the second Constant daughter, Lindy, sits at the table, gulping water out of a tin cup. She eyes David warily over the rim until he sticks out his tongue and makes a face [...]

Another MAGICTOWN short. This one for Jon Haas. Who, in hindsight, I realized is one of my favorite characters – both to write and read – and I killed him off in the first act of the book. Might not have been my best idea. Home is the place you know, where everything is familiar. [...]

In which I try something different. The first of a series of character-centric short fiction pieces I’ll be using as spacing material when I need more time to work on a MAGICTOWN chapter. First up: Maggie Constant.

This post contains the outline of the remaining chapters of MAGICTOWN, rebuilt this weekend after I lost the original in a harddrive crash a few months back. Fair warning: this will spoil the rest of the book for you.